Poems. London: Fisher Unwin, 1895. First Edition. Pp xi, 285, uncut, top edge gilt. Publisher’s pale tan cloth with design and lettering in gold on front and back cover, and spine. Designed by H. Granville Fell. Light wear to head & tail of spine, contents pages in nice bright condition. Housed in collector’s solander box. [Wade 15].

Folded card bearing a quotation in the Poet’s Hand & his Signature:

“To Time and Time’s Old Daughter Truth. Yours, W.B. Yeats“

The first collected edition of Yeats’ poems containing: The Wanderings of Usheen, The Countess, Cathleen, The Rose, Crossways. Only 750 copies of this edition were printed.

‘This book contains all the writer cares to preserve out of his previous volumes of verse,’ (From the preface by Yeats).

One of the more attractively bound of Yeats’s works.